Episode Fact File: The Simpsons Guy

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In September of 2014, 2 months before The Simpsons and Futurama met, Fox brought two other worlds together in a special 1 hour season premiere of Family Guy titled, “The Simpsons Guy.” In a look back into the past, we’re going to analyze the episode with trivia, pictures and videos. Enjoy right after the jump!

The Simpsons Guy

Episode Description: Peter and the Griffins get out of dodge and end up in Springfield, where they are greeted by a friendly stranger named Homer Simpson, who welcomes his new “albino” friends with open arms. The families get along famously: Stewie and Bart make out like bandits when Stewie trades in his mind control device for a good old-fashioned slingshot; Lisa takes Meg under her wing and teaches her the saxophone; Marge and Lois ditch housework for a little bonding; and Peter and Homer fight over the best beer in town – Pawtucket vs. Duff.

Episode Details: ‘The Simpsons Guy’ is the 1st episode of Season 13 as well as the 232th episode of Family Guy. The episode aired on FOX on September 28, 2014 and was written by Patrick Meighan and directed by Peter Shin. This episode is considered non-canon and the events featured do not relate to the series and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.

PRODUCTION!:

“The Simpsons Guy” is the first official crossover episode between The Simpsons and Family Guy. However, Dan Castellaneta previously voiced Homer Simpson in the Family Guy episode “Ratings Guy” whilst Seth MacFarlane voiced Ben in the season 24 episode “Dangers on a Train”. Peter Griffin has also made a couple of appearances in The Simpsons whilst many The Simpsons characters have appeared in Family Guy.

The writers of Family Guy wrote the episode, rather than the writers of The Simpsons, although the executive producers of The Simpsons tweaked a few lines. Bob Belcher from Bob’s Burgers, Fred Flintstone from The Flintstones and Roger Smith from American Dad! also appeared in the crossover episode. Current Family Guy producer and former Simpsons producer Richard Appel is the one who proposed the idea of the crossover to The Simpsons producers. The Simpsons producers were happy with this, as long as they didn’t kill off characters and didn’t destroy Springfield.

A 5 minute sample of clips from the episode was shown at San Diego Comic-Con 2014.

An unused gag involved a comparison between the Simpsons’ and the Griffins’ station wagons.

When Homer and Peter are jumping Springfield Gorge with the spaceship Peter says “We’re Gonna make it!” and Homer answers “Trust me, we’re not” and then they fail. (“Bart the Daredevil“, The Simpsons Movie)

That is all from this special Episode Fact File and I would like to thank WikiSimpsons for the information for this post and Nathan for the base design of it. The next post will be covering the next episode of The Simpsons, until next time, Happy Tapping everyone!

This pictures and videos are from the “The Simpsons Guy” episode of FOX show Family Guy. Their use is believed to qualify as fair use under United States copyright law.